Search engines by country · Europe

Which search engines do people use in Germany?

In StatCounter's October 2026 figures for Germany (all platforms), Google has 88.46% of search engine referrals, bing 6.39% and Yahoo! 1.61%. Referrals are visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a results page, not searches. ChatGPT has the highest AI chatbot share, 40.9%. This site documents 2 engines for Germany. StatCounter Global Stats

Share figures for October 2026 · data checked November 10, 2026

#1 search engine
GoogleStatCounter's label, October 2026
Its share of search engine referrals
88.46% StatCounter Global StatsVisits from results pages to sites running StatCounter's code, all platforms
Engines documented for Germany
2: MetaGer and Staan
Top AI chatbot
ChatGPT, 40.9% StatCounter Global StatsStatCounter's product name
Population
83,491,2492025, World Bank
Rich results that name Germany
3 on record

Which search engines do people use in Germany?

StatCounter lists 11 search engine rows for Germany for October 2026, all platforms. Each figure is that row's share of search engine referrals: the visits that sites running StatCounter's code receive from a search engine's results page. It does not count searches. StatCounter Global Stats

Search engine referrals in Germany, October 2026Every row StatCounter lists, under its labels; a linked label opens the engine page it is matched to. Bars run from 0 to 100%. StatCounter Global Stats
  1. Google88.46%
  2. bing6.39%
  3. Yahoo!1.61%
  4. YANDEX1.36%
  5. DuckDuckGo0.99%
  6. Ecosia0.92%
  7. t-online0.14%
  8. Qwant0.04%
  9. StartPage0.04%
  10. Other0.03%
  11. WEB.DE0.02%

Matching: StatCounter's one “Yahoo!” row is counted as Yahoo Search here (as Yahoo! JAPAN Search in Japan; its worldwide row covers both). YANDEX is Yandex Search; where StatCounter also lists YANDEX RU, the two rows are added together.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats, search engine market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Rankings across countries on this site use only places of 1 million people or more where StatCounter lists at least three search engines; Germany is one of them.

Which AI chatbots do people use in Germany?

StatCounter lists 6 AI chatbot rows for Germany for October 2026, under its own product names. StatCounter does not describe how it measures AI chatbot share on the pages read, so no method is claimed here. Its product names are broader or narrower than the engine profiles on this site, so each linked name opens the engine profile it is matched to. StatCounter Global Stats

AI chatbot share in Germany, October 2026Every row StatCounter lists, under its product names. Bars run from 0 to 50%. StatCounter Global Stats
  1. ChatGPT40.9%
  2. Google Gemini35.3%
  3. Perplexity16.08%
  4. Claude4.03%
  5. Microsoft Copilot3.66%
  6. Deepseek0.03%

Source: StatCounter Global Stats, AI chatbot market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Which engines are documented for Germany?

The engine profiles on this site document 2 engines for Germany: each one's recorded markets include Germany. Each profile lists its sources.

  • MetaGerSearch engine

    Rich result types: none on record

    StatCounter figure here: none reported

  • StaanSearch engine

    Rich result types: none on record

    StatCounter figure here: none reported

26 more engines are recorded with no country limit: their pages do not limit them to listed countries. They are on the engines page.

Which rich results name Germany?

The engine profiles record 3 rich result types whose documentation names Germany in saying where the result is, or is not, available. Only rows that name Germany itself are listed: a rich result documented for a whole region, without a list of its countries, does not appear here. Valid markup can make a page eligible; it does not guarantee the result.

Google Search

  • Event Active

    Available only in the places its documentation lists, including Germany.[1]

    Documentation

  • Job posting Active

    Available only in the places its documentation lists, including Germany.[2]

    Documentation

  • Loyalty program Active

    Available only in the places its documentation lists, including Germany.[3]

    Documentation

How do I test a page for Germany?

Inject the World

Test a page for Germany

Check the structured data on a page against what the engines profiled on this site document, with Germany set as the market.

Test a page

Sources

Market share

  • StatCounter Global Stats: search engine market share, Germany, October 2026, all platforms (desktop, mobile, tablet and console), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • StatCounter Global Stats: AI chatbot market share, Germany, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Population

World Bank, indicator SP.POP.TOTL, CC BY 4.0, 2025. It also decides which places are ranked (1 million people or more).

Rich result availability

Numbered as cited above.

  1. 1.Event (Event) structured data · Google Search Central · accessed November 10, 2026
  2. 2.Job posting (JobPosting) structured data for Job Search · Google Search Central · accessed November 10, 2026
  3. 3.Loyalty program (MemberProgram) structured data · Google Search Central · accessed November 10, 2026

Names

Germany is the English name in CLDR 47.0, the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository. The country list used here is UN M49, plus Taiwan from ISO 3166-1. ISO 3166-1 code: DE.